Book review: Machine Learning, Neural and Statistical Classification Edited by D. Michie, D.J. Spiegelhalter and C.C. Taylor (Ellis Horwood Limited, 1994)

The book is based on the "StatLog" project which lasted from 1990 to 1993, and involved six academic and 6 industrial laboratories. Statisticians, AI researchers in machine learning, and neural net specialists conducted extensive, collaborative work on the task of classification. This well-edited book provides an up-to-date review of different approaches to classification, compares their performance on a wide range of challenging datasets, and draws conclusions on their applicability to realistic industrial problems.